SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 23 Transitional and transitory provisions and savings

Part I General transitional provisions and savings

The Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967

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1

Nothing in this Act shall prevent the completion on or after the transfer date of any investigation begun before that date under the M1Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 in pursuance of a complaint made in relation to the National Rivers Authority.

2

Nothing in this Act shall prevent the making on or after the transfer date of a complaint under that Act in respect of any action which was taken by or on behalf of the National Rivers Authority before that date.

3

Notwithstanding the amendment of that Act by paragraph 11 of Schedule 22 to this Act, the provisions of that Act shall have effect on and after the transfer date in relation to any complaint to which sub-paragraph (1) or (2) above applies and to its investigation as they would have had effect before that date; but, in relation to any such complaint, the Agency shall on and after that date stand in the place of the National Rivers Authority for the purposes of this paragraph.